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Does the human eye/mind see in frames per second? | It's difficult to explain the human eye in terms of resolution or frames per second because the differences between a cameras sensor and an eye are vast and many. A decent analogy would be the difference between analog and digital audio signals, yes you get the same sound, but the data looks completely different. I bel... |
3, 2, 1 and D on automatic transmission cars. | select shift" or "tip-tronic". This usually involves either tipping the gear shift to the side to put it into the gear select mode and then you have the option of selecting gears sequentially. |
Why are phone companies allowed to take back unused mobile phone credit at the end of each month? | Well the conditions of purchase are that you use the credit within a certain month. You don't pay for $30 of calls and subsequently own $30 of calls, you pay for the right to make $30 of calls in the month of October. Contracts are very versatile in this respect. As long as you are aware of the conditions at the time o... |
What does Depression feel like? | It feels like you have a very finite amount of energy, and you do not draw any subtle pleasures from your day to day life like usual. So you constantly feel distraught, and feel like whatever you are doing or think you might want to do just isn't worth the effort, because you won't get any pleasure from it, which just ... |
Why does using cruise control hurt your fuel economy? | What saves fuel is not as much a matter if constant speed, but constant RPMs. Because it is rare to find a perfectly flat road, often the engine with have to change it's RPMs to maintain the constant speed. Higher RPMs will mean more fuel used.Overall I think cruise control improves fuel economy for most vehicles and d... |
If the muscles in my face are not autonomous, why is it so hard to stop myself from smiling/snickering in inappropriate situations? | I wonder how much this relates to your 'pyramidal' vs. 'extrapyramidal' motor systems. Your extrapyramidal system takes control of certain skeletal muscles when you're not thinking about them But once you *do* think about it, your pyramidal system takes over and you can sit up straighter, hold your breath, etc. Just a ... |
How do websites like Youtube make tons of money without forcing its users to pay a fee | Imagine that you get $0.10 per video view in which a video plays an add. Now imagine that you have 10,000 subscribers who watch each video - that's $1,000 per video you make. Now think of those people who have millions of subscribers and produce several videos a month. Edit: I don't know the actual value of an ad. My p... |
How do we know what stars are made of? | Imagine you had some friends and they all liked different types of food, but are very particular and will only eat their favourite. You guys like to cook and own a restaurant called the Star. There you make every single type of food available, but your friends only eat one or two types each, and not wanting to waste th... |
How Did "Never Gonna Give You Up" Become The Quintessential Troll Song? | My first rickroll was the most beautifully evil thing I've ever seen. I clicked on a link I believed to be something else and it took me to a website where this video was playing. I tried to X out of the video, and a popup appeared displaying the lyrics. A new popup for every line of lyrics.Like everything cool on the ... |
How is normalizing relations with Cuba going to affect the US economy? | From what I understand, this is a potentially great opportunity for many north american companies to start investing in a new market. If the embargo were to be lifted, and a while after Cuba restructures its local infrastructure and economy, we'll start to see companies such as GM or Ford shipping their merchandise ove... |
How can the ocean become low on oxygen when water is one part oxygen? | Because they aren't talking about oxygen bound up with other elements. They're talking about gaseous oxygen that is dissolved in the water that is essential for aquatic life. |
How would it play out if taxpayers could choose how their tax money was utilised by the government? | No, because the average person has next to no understanding of the full scope of what the government does or how much money it requires. There are dozens of small, obscure, but still important agencies that we wouldn't even think to give money to. |
Why minor chords tend to make us feel sad, and major chords give us a "feel good" feeling? | Counterexamples off the top of my head - Wish You Were Here by Pink Floyd is in a major key.- Hallelujah by Leonard Cohen is in a major key- Something About Us by Daft Punk is in a major key- Creep by Radiohead is in a major key- Yesterday by The Beatles is in a major key- Lovefool by The Cardigans is in a minor key - ... |
How do illegal immigrants stay in a country for decades without getting caught? | The majority of illegals are law abiding people who are afraid of the gas meter man and the mail man. They fear the government, fear prison, and fear deportation 1. Buy a fake or stolen social 2. They generally only drive for work, family gatherings, and market gooda. 3. They get taxed but don't get tax returns Most im... |
Why does the "no smoking" light exist in planes? | In addition to the fact that it serves as a reminder that smoking isn't allowed, airplanes are sold to airlines all over the world, and some of those continued to allow smoking for quite a long time . Cubana only banned smoking on flights in 2014. |
The Iowa Caucus and why it is or isn't important? | Good answers so far, but one big thing I think is missing: The Iowa Caucuses are important because it's the first time we actually get to VOTE for something! Until Iowa, it's all polls, It's suppositions and political navel gazing. It's who has money, who has support, who has done the best job maneuvering for position.... |
Why could it be considered offensive to teach global warming in schools? | Because a lot of americas are nuts, sorry but this does seem to be an american problem.I was though about global warming in school at about 7 years old in the early nineties inIreland. We're an Island and get a lot of floods maybe that's why it's not disputed here.No matter what you say or do, someone will find it offe... |
What's the difference between LCD and LED TVs? | Both LED and non-LED TVs use LCD screens. [LCD] TV with [LED] backlighting. [LCD] TV with [CCFL] backlighting. It's just bad marketing that makes you believe LED TVs are new and LCD TVs are old |
How to gain weight with a fast/high metabolism? | Consume a lot of calories. It's that simple. You could also cultivate a sedentary lifestyle, although that's not really a good idea. Some people would say that you should also make sure that the calories come mostly from carbohydrate-rich foods, but that's arguable, and possibly varies from person to person. |
What is 4chan and why is it being banned in so many places? Isn't 4chan just like reddit? | the internet is like a giant human centipede. 4chan is the mouth, gobbling up new content and shitting it out into Reddit's mouth. Reddit in turn shits it out into, i don't know, Buzzfeed or something, and this goes on until content has been shat out and swallowed up throughout the internet. |
Why did some ancient civilizations, f.e. the Egyptians, seem to use the same distinct art style for centuries or even millennia? | It likely wasn't, we just have such a small representative sample that it appears that way. In addition, techniques and concepts in art evolve over time, so you're probably partially right in that it didn't change that much. |
How do pornstars avoid getting STDs/STIs as well as pregnancy? | Any legitimate porn studio has a lot of paperwork it reds before filming including having all actors have std tests. As for the pregnancy it is the same as anyone else. Contraceptives most often it's the pill |
Are food cravings random or does my body know that it needs something that is contained within the food that I crave? | Little of both. Part of craving is physiological, but a lot of it is learned behavior. There's no clear definition of where exactly the source of cravings come from, but it's complicated. |
Why is ALL of the climate change so bad? Is there really no part of the world that is likely to benefit? | You are not missing a thing. As others have said, there will be pluses and minuses as far as the Earth is concerned. The question of how it will affect humanity is very different. Humans will be displaced and suffer from a reduction of resources, and there will be issues with war and poverty because of it. The human su... |
Why is there a specific order for solving maths and how did it come to be that way? | I don't know how it developed, but if no order was established, there would be different possible results from the same equation. for example, 3 + 2 x 5 = 13 or 25 Personally, I lean towards using parentheses '' to avoid ambiguity. 3 + . |
Why do kids seem to have infinite energy and amazing fitness, yet as we get older this deteriorates? | My son currently weights 25 pounds. He only expends 1/8th the amount of energy to run around the house all day and he's more physically active than me since I have a job sitting at a computer and he gets to play. He's also younger so he doesn't get injured as easily and his muscles heal faster because he's constantly g... |
What does it mean to have an 'oral fixation,' and why might a person have one? | It's also worth knowing there are two types of fixations, according to Freud, expulsion and retention. For example, oral expulsion would be things like constantly spitting, chewing then spitting up food, throwing up willingly, basically moving stuff out of the mouth. Retention is things like sucking on a thumb, chewing... |
If alcohol has been proven to cause cancer and other diseases, why aren't bottles covered in warning labels like cigarettes? | There are warning labels on alcohol, they cover the subjects of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome and Drunk Driving. Generally speaking, you have to be a a heavy drinker to substantially increase your risk of cancer/cirrhosis due to alcohol which doesn't apply to most drinkers. Hence, the reason a warning label isn't as warranted... |
Why wasn't Gay Marriage legal when homosexuals were given rights? | because gays were never given rights like everyone else was through federal amendments. homosexual intercourse was only made legal nation wide fairly recently in 2003 by a supreme court ruling in lawrence v texas. the gay rights movement didnt even really start agressivly untill the stonewall riots happened in the summ... |
How do store shoplifting detectors know you are stealing an item that you haven't already paid for? | Modern versions are often using an RFID chip under a sticker somewhere, a few years ago they would have been a small bump but now they're undetectable from a normal sticker unless you see the backside of it .Most places prolly have *security tags* that clerks remove after purchasing. If not, the gates will auto set off... |
why I never see eastern martial artists compete in UFC? | I study Wing Chun . Don't forget that there are fighting sports and fighting arts and they do not easily mix. Sports have rules in order to avoid serious injuries and death, while street-ready MAs employ many techniques which are not permitted in the ring. Remove them and you have a really shitty sport-type MA and any ... |
If you can use alcohol to clean wounds from infection, can you cure yourself by getting drunk while sick? | As an alcoholic who's currently sick, you only get sicker. Shit fucks with your immune system.If you consumed enough alcohol to make your blood antispetic, you 'd die. Remember that the legal definition of "too drunk to drive" is 0.08% in many jurisdictions - that's eight hundredths of one percent, or 8 parts in ten th... |
Why does alcohol affect people in different ways, when other drugs are fairly consistent? | Psh, drugs are NOT consistent . Even the simple ones like weed. For example, My smoking buddy will be watching youtube videos after smoking while I am in the corner hugging the wall thinking if I let go I could fall. You get your Gigglers, sleepyheads, enigmatics, dumb-asses, smart-asses, those who become energetic, th... |
Why are there so many different "heads" for screwdrivers instead of just one universal screwdriver head? | It's often for various degrees of security. Most electronics nowadays use more obscure screw types to purposely try to prevent people from messing with the insides of the device.The slotted screw is for simplicity. The phillips head is better for torque as well as the hex and star head. There is no universal head becau... |
Did the German citizens who continued to live within Germany during WWII really not know about the genocide that was taking place within and around their borders? | If someone wanted to know, they could've. I mean, a group of college students figured shit out about concentration camp . The extermination of the Jews and Slavs was also contained in Mein Kampf. However, the Reichssicherheit, together with the GeStaPo made sure that if you knew, you kept it to yourself, too, lest too ... |
How come when you first learn a word, you begin to hear it everywhere? | I've also found that to be true of general information. For example, I learned the other day that William Shatner had the first cross-racial kiss on television. Then, I heard that same fact a few days later in a movie. Then again during a TV special about NBC. So odd. |
why does the "quietest room in the world" drive people crazy? | You would actually be able to hear your heartbeat and muscles moving around, that would probably drive someone mad. But besides that, sensory deprivation actually causes hallucinations because your brain always wants to be doing something, and when you don't let the senses collect information, the part of the brain tha... |
On Spotify, who gets the money from dead artists? | Adding to /u/GenXCub 's comment for who owns Vivaldi or Mozart's songs? Art becomes public domain in some time after the artists death. Usually 50 or 70 years. That means that Vivaldi's and Mozarts songs are public domain. In that case the one playing the song has the rights so in this case it might be London's Philhar... |
If someone gets a skin graft from a person of a different skin colour, does the skin retain that colour? | I thought skin grafting had to do with using your own cells to make new skin and then pasting it on Don't know enough on the subject. |
Why is the term "ironic" so widely misunderstood and seems so hard for people to use properly? | Irony is when you say the opposite of what you mean, or when something that you do has the opposite result of what was intended. More broadly, it's when there's a difference between what you might reasonably expect and what actually happens. Irony can sometimes be confused with either sarcasm or simple bad luck. It's c... |
It seems like "everyone" is getting cancer. Has is always been this way, like since the dawn of time, or is this something new, or...? | I know I'm late to the game, so I'll understand if no one sees this, but I have a follow-up question. Everyone so far who has an upvoted answer is pointing to the fact that we're living longer. Okay, I get that, no argument there. But I actually clicked on this because I'm noticing a lot more young, otherwise healthy p... |
Why can't I drink the water when I go abroad? | There may be bacteria in the area that your body and immune system aren't used to, which could make you sick. This is because for the most part, North America and First World Europe have good, clean drinking water, and many destinations for travel aren't as well maintained when it comes to their water infrastructure. |
if I post a letter to another country, does the other country's postal service get part of the stamp money? | No, not as long as both countries have a more or less equal post transfer to eachother. e.g. Swiss and Hungary send almost equal amounts of post to eachother, the costs would just cancel out so they don't charge anything. This is different however, when for instance China sends a bazillion packages to many other countr... |
Why do many people motion with their hands when speaking? | Some historians believe that when our species' use of language evolved it did so as a multi modal means of communication- i.e. combinations of physical movements and sounds. As our languages have become more sophisticated we are now capable of communicating with one another using speech alone, but that perhaps wasn't a... |
How small does something have to be for the laws of quantum mechanics to affect it, rather than classical mechanics? | * stone * grain of sand * bacterium Measure position with precision of to 1µm and make sure, as good as you can, that they don't move. uncertainty in speed dv = h/ ) * stone * grain of sand * bacterium position may change due to uncertainty of velocity After ~~53years~~ 20days the bacterium's uncertainty in location is... |
Why is it that I'm always just a little bit tired, no matter how much I sleep? | Have you tried this sleep cycle calculator? _URL_0_ I, for one, feel much more refreshed if I'm exercising regularly and limiting my drinking. I can sleep fewer than 7 hours and still feel good if I have those other two things going for me. |
CPU render time vs real life time. | That's HTTYD2, actually - the first one was a lot more primitive graphically. You're missing CPU multitasking. They used cloud computing services - rendering processes that were split across thousands of computers all over the place - to dramatically speed up that 90 million hours. Ten thousand years of single-computer... |
The role of chromosomes in the inheritance of genes | A chromosome is a very long string of DNA that has been tightly compacted so it can fit inside of a cell. Each gene is a specific section of that DNA. The DNA sequence in this area can differ slightly between individuals of the same species. All human cells have two chromosomes, and they also can have slightly differen... |
The math problem we see Matt Damon's character solving in the scene on university's hallway chalkboard in Good Will Hunting. | It is actually a fairly simple problem that has been solved before. It is the number of different ways that you can connect 10 dots with line segments, without making a cycle and without having 2 and only 2 line segments connecting to one dot. To see an excellent 5 minute video on the subject, I'd highly recommend this... |
Why do dogs and humans get along so swimmingly? | Biologist here! Dogs evolved from wolves between 18,800 and 32,000 years ago. We have had thousands of years to grow together as species. Within that time we have shaped their evolution to follow our lead, show us affection and carry out tasks for us. It's pretty simple really, thousands of years of breeding by us to c... |
In a recession, where does the money go? | As others have said, the money is still there but it's not flowing. Why is this important? Banks are scared to lend money because trust in repayment has dropped. So loans get more expensive because they are a higher risk and the banks charge more interest to pay for the loans that won't get paid back. Small business ow... |
What are the difference between the many types of piano pieces (Sonata, Scherzo, Nocturne, Etude, Ballade etc.)? | Ballad: slow, moving song. Can be quite powerful. Tells a story. Etude: More of a technical thing. Usually make great exercises to practice. Nocturne: A music poem. Simple, melodic, ~~started~~ popularized with Chopin. Sontata: A big multimovement piece like a symphony without the orchestra. It usually takes a few them... |
What makes something microwaveable or non-microwaveable? Is all food microwaveable? | All food is microwavable and safe to eat if you cook it long enough. The only time it's unsafe to microwave foods is when they are packaged or held in something containing metal. Cooking instructions will sometimes tell you not to microwave foods just because they might not taste good as compare to other cooking method... |
Why is it advantageous for a patient to be awake during some brain surgeries? | Because the brain is very sensitive. If you accidentally poke something in there, you might wipe someone's short term memory. A lot of times they'll ask the patient questions related to water portion of the brain they're working in to know if they pushed a wrong spot or not. |
Why can a person with any blood type recieved O- blood, but a person with O- blood can only recieve O- | Each blood type has antigens for other blood types. Some blood types don't get along with antigens from other blood types. However, some blood types don't dislike others. If I remember correctly, no blood type has antigens for O-, but O- has antigens for all other bloodtypes |
Why does The Walking Dead mostly have only adult zombies wandering around? Where are all the children? | All the kids were at school when the zombie apocalypse happened. But really, it's not a legal issue, it's simply that adult extras are easier to find, put makeup on, and direct. |
Why are teachers not reimbursed when they purchase school supplies? | It would cost money to reimburse the teacher. The teacher is usually purchasing the supplies because the school hasn't budgeted for providing those supplies, so obviously it won't be budgeting for reimbursement either. At schools with more funding, the school could simply purchase directly what teachers request. Edit: ... |
Is there a reason why train horns have to be ridiculously loud? | Many years ago, I worked at a factory that used trains to move things around the plant. To get to my office building, I had to cross a set of tracks that ran along the side of the building and within about 8 feet of the entrance. You could hear the train's horn far away, but when it got closer to the offices, the peopl... |
Why is child adoption so complicated a process in so many developed countries? | Yo ho ho! Yer not alone in askin', and kind strangers have explained: 1. [ELI5: Why is adoption so difficult/expensive? ]1. [ELI5: Why does it cost so much to adopt children? ]1. [ELI5: Why is adoption so expensive? ]1. [ELI5:Why is it so hard to adopt a child when there are thousands of children without parents in orp... |
The difference between student loans and student aid/grants? | You hit it right on the head. Loans are money that you have to pay back. Grants are money that you don't. |
When Amazon Video offers to show me a 1968 movie in HD for $1 more, is there actually any difference in quality? | Remember that film is a chemical reaction to light. Film well on, well, film, and you can scale it up quite well as though you are viewing something through a microscope or other lens. The amount equates to 8K and is as such as high definition as is standard today for digital. Digital is basically assigning a pixel a c... |
Why did evolution decide to require a male and female in order to reproduce, when single celled organisms successfully reproduced asexually? | _URL_0_ It's actually something we're not entirely sure on. Theories typically involve greater variation, and a superior dispersal of advantageous traits and filtering out of disadvantageous traits. |
Why has marijuna use in teenagers where it has been legalized been dropping? | Drug rates among teens aren't dropping because of legalized pot. Drug use by teens has been dropping steadily for several years and this is just a continuation of a preexisting trend. |
Why is (speaking) censoring done with a beep in most cases | It's actually less jarring than silence. But the real answer as to why they use a beep, just about every broadcast console out there comes with a 1khz tone generator built in.When I studied computer science the professor in some audio processing course made a project where the beeps were replaced with swear words. Pret... |
Since the heart is a muscle, why don't fat peoples' hearts get stronger; so they don't have heart problems | Your heart can be very strong but you could still suffer a heart attack. A heart attack is a lack of blood flow through the heart to provide enough oxygen. There may be a blockage to that flow, like cholesterol build up, etc. Think of it this way. The blood flowing can be thought of as the pipe that takes gasoline from... |
Why are natural killer cells unable to destroy cancer cells | Cells have several mechanisms that prevent them from becoming cancerous. One of the ways is signaling to the rest of the body that it is 'damaged'. Basically, it marks itself for destruction. [Here are the others] So each cell is responsible for alerting the body, or destroying itself. The immune system has no way of k... |
When someone gets sued for much more than their worth, who ends up paying? | Lawyer here. Judgments are good for a long time . So if you get win a judgment against someone, and they can't pay you all at once, you can *theoretically* follow them around, garnishing their earnings and executing any assets they may accumulate. But again, that's theoretically. In practice, no one's just going to wil... |
Whats the difference between doing an impression vs doing an impersonation? And if there is no difference, why two words for one thing? | To do an impression is the imitation of another person for entertainment, while to impersonate is the imitation of another person fraudulently or for entertainment. Impression, I suppose, is more towards entertainment while impersonation is for entertainment and and possibly crime. Other than that, there really isn't a... |
What do pharmacists do besides count out pills and put them in a bottle? There's obviously way more to the job | Pharmacists have to check to make sure there's no interactions with medications while simultaneously taking phone calls from patients over side effects, interactions, etc. while also taking/making phone calls to doctors offices to obtain prescriptions and clarify mistakes made by doctors. They also have to make sure th... |
Why is it that some ice cubes freeze transparent and other ice cubes freeze opaque? | It depends on how they are frozen. For ice cube makers: if ice freezes from the top down then it's a controlled freeze which forces the dissolved gases in the water away from the ice, kind of like taking a tube of tooth paste and putting pressure on it from one end, then sliding forward. It forces the gases out of the ... |
Why is it that when I watch tv recordings from the 70's, 80's or 90's the quality is absolutely terrible, almost unwatchable, but back then they seemed perfectly fine? | The quality of the equipment you were watching it on was much lower, so not only were you used to watching lower quality broadcasts, but increasing the quality wouldn't have a noticeable effect due to hardware limitations.I frequently watch reruns of old TV shows that are broadcast in digital and the quality, whilst ob... |
Why is it possible to see something in the dark with your peripheral vision but not when staring directly at it? | Your ability to see is based on two types of photo receptors in your eye. Rods and cones. The congress see color and are at the back of your eye. The rods are the ones that can see better in low light, and they're found around the outside of your retina. So in low light the image of whatever you're looking at needs to ... |
What exactly is SIDS (sudden infant death syndrome)? Why does SIDS happen? | The simple answer is: we don't know; this is also the reason why it does not have a better name. In fact SIDS is defined as any deaths of an infant where the cause cannot be determined. There are some theories what might be the cause and there seem to be risk factors that increase the likeliness of a child dying in tha... |
What does it mean to render a video and why does it take so long? | Video games *must* run in real time - otherwise they would be unplayable. Therefore, the designers need to take shortcuts in order to make the renderer run quickly. For animations rendered ahead of time, it doesn't matter how long it takes - so more sophisticated algorithms like ray-tracing or photon mapping can be use... |
Pulsar map by Carl Sagan | In the days before GPS following a map basically meant looking for landmarks. EG: I see the Washington Monument to my right, there's The Capitol to my left, therefore I know where I am standing. However, aliens won't know that we named that star Alpha Centauri and that star Wolf 359, so how would we get it across, that... |
What is mustard gas and why its use by ISIS is news? | Mustard gas is sulfur mustards and was used during ww1. It is a chemical weapon and has since been banned during wartime engagements. Its way of killing is gruesome to say the least. That's why it is making news. It hasn't been used for a long while and breaks a lot of agreements about chemical weapons. |
Why do most countries accept Turkey's vehement denial of the Armenian Genocide? | somebody has to back me up on this, but i think most countries have multiple reasons. First and most important, Turkey is one of the only western allies in that region. US has a airbase in Incirlik . Most countries within the Middle-East are not that keen with Americans have a base on their soil. Europe needs Turkey ba... |
Why is it so easy for hackers to disrupt government services and access private information but no one has erased all credit card debt for everyone? | Disrupting something is easy, all things considered. You just take something working, and force it to crash somehow. This holds true even for government systems. Altering something specific, like credit card debt, is far more complicated. For starters, there is no central database of debt. Each credit card company is g... |
How do flat land areas flood? | It might've been next to a river. Since the land is flat and the river is the lowest area that water is able to spread out super far since there is not a lot of difference in elevation on the land. |
Why don't cable/internet/satellite companies make you sign a contract like cell phone companies? | I haven't had a cell phone contract for 2 years now. Both industries have contract and non-contract based business models. |
Why do frogs sing/croak when it's raining? | Where I live, the desert toads croak when they get displaced. They really don't reside where I live, but if it rains, they get washed down from the mesa into the ditches and they appear to do it to keep tabs on each other. |
Why is it rude to ask somebody how much they get paid? | It's personal information. People often use that sort of thing to judge other people, or it can become awkward between friends if one makes significantly more than others. It's just considered a private thing that people don't freely share.Leads to things like "oh, you only make that much? What a chump!" or "you make m... |
How was Germany able to take on the rest of the whole world, twice in 25 years, and even almost win | Nazi Germany did not 'almost win' by any means. They certainly occupied France, yet had no naval power compared to the Brits or plans to invade the UK or North America. The war would have dragged on a little longer without American intervention but the war would have resulted in an allied win regardless as soon as Germ... |
For light sleepers, why does the sound of their own snoring not wake them up? | It's a sound they've grown used to hearing. Much like how babies who hear their mum sleep in the womb, if she snores then they'll be able to sleep with snoring. |
If after a couple years your body has completely different cells why do we age and not just reproduce new youthful cells instead? | Without getting super technical, the best answer we've got right now is that we're not very good at making cells. There's improperly copied stuff, there's left over junk, there's large-scale damage that we can't fix, cells that stop dividing. The body is basically more careful about how it grows things in the first pla... |
why is fainting so common at weddings? | It really isn't signifcantly more common. It's common in movies because it's dramatic. You've probably seen various videos of it happening in real life, because weddings are events which are being constantly recorded by multiple people from multiple angles - very few other events are. I wouldn't be shocked if they were... |
Before there were cars, were there roads? | yes.if i remember correctly.the Romans built roads. good ones.some of them still around.obviously they weren't meant for combustion engines but they had horse drawn carts etc. |
Why is "lawyer-speak" so prevalent in contracts/license agreements if nobody actually speaks like that? | Because people can be exceptionally vague and ambiguous in regular speech without trying. Legalese aims to only be interpretable in a single way without any 'outs' through cunning. |
Is it possible to get your blood, put it in centrifuge little portion at a time, remove cholesterol and other unwanted things in there and put it back? | Currently, we use a procedure called Dialysis for patients with limited kidney function. It essentially filters your blood through an external membrane that mimics your kidney function. I'm not 100% sure but it definitely seems plausible that this process could be modified to isolate other compounds. But remember, you ... |
How can you tell the difference between male and female just by looking at a person's face | Very roughly speaking, men's faces tend to be more angular and women's more rounded. This can affect the shape of the eyes, the nose, the lips, the chin, the jaw and the cheekbone. The shape, size and curve of the eyebrows tends to be different, too. Some great images to see the difference: _URL_4_ |
Why is it acceptable for certain Americans to display the Confederate Flag? | The confederate flag is still the state flag of Georgia, so there's that. Then there's a strong movement from some Southerners that waving the Confederate flag is an issue of southern pride and history regardless of it's negative aspects. I personally don't agree with the use of the Confederate flag, but it's a free co... |
How is basic universal income different than unconditional welfare? | The thing people keep coming to is the some how people would lose incentive to work or that it means we could abolish the minimum wage. While you could abolish the minimum wage, wages would still have to rise to find worker, the demand would shift from people needing jobs to people needing employees, therefore incentiv... |
How does a Fitbit count your steps so accurately? | It's not very accurate at all. If you've ever worn it to sleep, you'd notice. Sometimes I wake up with 50 extra steps. Or sometimes I get like 30 steps when putting on pants.Basically, every time a piece of metal inside of a metal box makes contact with the box, electricity runs through and it counts the number of time... |
What is Ayn Rand's philosophy and general message in her books? | The basic idea she had was that seeking your own self interest would not only be the best thing for yourself, but for society as well. Giving to the poor was detrimental in her mind. Anti-monopoly laws hindered progress instead of helped it.Et cetera. While I respectfully disagree with her ideology, her books are downr... |
Why is vanilla often considered 'plain' flavour? | Because it's white and common, but more likely because in the case of ice cream people often take vanilla ice cream and add stuff to make flavored . It's the same with pizza, how plain is red with cheese, because that's the base and you add toppings. |
What exactly is a 401K, how does it work, and why is it a good idea? | > Search first. Use the handy search bar to see if your question has already been answered satisfactorily. If the question has been asked but you don't understand any answers, feel free to ask again. _URL_4URL_0URL_1URL_2URL_3_", 'Let's say that you make $100, and get taxed 25% on the first $80, and 50% on every dollar... |
How do you tie your shoes? | I was the same way so don't beat yourself up, the way I do is start with both strings in both hands tighten them as much as you can without hurting your foot, cross them over each other and loop the left string under both of them, tighten the strings again, then make a loop from the string on the right and keep it main... |
Why is it so dangerous to mix ammonia and bleach? | Bleach + Ammonia is bad news. 2 + 2NH3 -- > 2NaONH3 + Cl2. That Cl2 on the end is chlorine liberated from the bleach in the form of a gas. Now chlorine is very useful when it's under control in combination with other chemicals. By itself though, it's a chemical weapon. It is **highly** reactive, which means it wants an... |
What's the worst an identity thief could do if they somehow stole my social security number but nothing else? | If they stole your actual social security card, they have your name, and they can find more info from there. If they have your social number, they can still most likely obtain your name, birthday, credit score, etc. If you ever have your social stolen, you can contact the social security administration and let them kno... |
Why do humans always feel the need to "debate" and end up arguing? | Possibly because our brains can't tolerate cognitive dissonance - the discomfort or distress felt when handling conflicting ideas. Our brains want logic, and reason, even if it doesn't make sense to anyone else. When someone proposes an idea that clashes with something you believe to be true, your brain expresses the n... |
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